Natural microbial communities supporting the transfer of the IncP-1β plasmid pB10 exhibit a higher initial content of plasmids from the same incompatibility group

X Bellanger, H Guilloteau, B Breuil… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotic resistance gene transfer mediated by plasmids is a matter of concern for public
health, but permissive environments supporting plasmid dissemination are still quite difficult …

Stability of a promiscuous plasmid in different hosts: no guarantee for a long-term relationship

L De Gelder, JM Ponciano, P Joyce… - Microbiology, 2007 - microbiologyresearch.org
Broad-host-range (BHR) IncP-1 plasmids have the ability to transfer between and replicate
in nearly all species of the Alpha-, Beta-and Gammaproteobacteria, but surprisingly few data …

Temperature and Nutrient Limitations Decrease Transfer of Conjugative IncP-1 Plasmid pKJK5 to Wild Escherichia coli Strains

R Pallares-Vega, G Macedo, MSM Brouwer… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Plasmid-mediated dissemination of antibiotic resistance among fecal Enterobacteriaceae in
natural ecosystems may contribute to the persistence of antibiotic resistance genes in …

Host range diversification within the IncP-1 plasmid group

H Yano, LM Rogers, MG Knox, H Heuer… - …, 2013 - microbiologyresearch.org
Broad-host-range plasmids play a critical role in the spread of antibiotic resistance and other
traits. In spite of increasing information about the genomic diversity of closely related …

Plasmids persist in a microbial community by providing fitness benefit to multiple phylotypes

L Li, A Dechesne, JS Madsen, J Nesme… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The current epidemic of antibiotic resistance has been facilitated by the wide and rapid
horizontal dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in microbial communities …

Frequent conjugative transfer accelerates adaptation of a broad-host-range plasmid to an unfavorable Pseudomonas putida host

H Heuer, RE Fox, EM Top - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
IncP-1 plasmids are known to be promiscuous, but it is not understood if they are equally
well adapted to various species within their host range. Moreover, little is known about their …

Broad host range plasmids can invade an unexpectedly diverse fraction of a soil bacterial community

U Klümper, L Riber, A Dechesne… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Conjugal plasmids can provide microbes with full complements of new genes and constitute
potent vehicles for horizontal gene transfer. Conjugal plasmid transfer is deemed …

Host-specific factors determine the persistence of IncP-1 plasmids

M Sota, EM Top - World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2008 - Springer
Conjugative plasmids play a very important role in bacterial adaptation through the
dissemination of useful traits. Incompatibility group P-1 (IncP-1) plasmids exhibit an extreme …

Demonstrating plasmid-based horizontal gene transfer in complex environmental matrices: a practical approach for a critical review

X Bellanger, H Guilloteau, S Bonot, C Merlin - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Plasmid-based dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental microbial
communities is a matter of concern for public health, but it remains difficult to study for …

Plasmid donor affects host range of promiscuous IncP-1β plasmid pB10 in an activated-sludge microbial community

L De Gelder, FPJ Vandecasteele… - Applied and …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Horizontal transfer of multiresistance plasmids in the environment contributes to the growing
problem of drug-resistant pathogens. Even though the plasmid host cell is the primary …